Album
How You Been
2025 · Electronic, Jazz
7 collectors on Gatefold own this
How You Been is a Jazz album by SML, originally released in 2025. On Gatefold: 4 pressings tracked, owned by 7 collectors.
About
Jazz-ish quintet SML combines the funky elation of krautrock and Afrobeat with the playful side of modern electronic music. Think whatever those old Keith Haring drawings must’ve been listening to, or an abstract sculpture in a public park wriggling to weird, colorful life. From the glitchy opening of “Gutteral Utterance” (whose subaquatic plinking sounds like a mid-’70s Brian Eno interlude), <i>How You Been</i> is a joy, mixing dense, polyrhythmic experiments with a sense of brightness that makes them feel approachable and light. It’s less luxury watch than expertly designed wind-up toy (“Chicago Four,” “How You Been”), punctuated by bits of ambience whose sweeping, quasi-orchestral quality calls back to 1930s cartoons (“Brood Board SHROOM”). Rigorous, fun, rigorously fun.
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Tracklist
Side A
- A1Guttural Utterance
- A2Chicago Four
- A3Taking Out The Trash
- A4Plankton
- A5Chicago Three
- A6Daves
- A7Old Myth
Side B
- B1Stepping In / The Loop
- B2Brood Board SHROOM
- B3Odd Evens
- B4How You Been
- B5Moving Walkway
- B6Mouth Words
Sound DNA
- Jazz
- Avant-Garde & Free Jazz
- raw
- meditative
- cerebral
Credits
The people behind it.
Performers
- Anna ButterssELECTRIC BASS
- Booker StardrumDRUMS, PERCUSSION
- Gregory UhlmannGUITAR, EFFECTS
- Jeremiah ChiuSYNTHESIZER , SAMPLES , PERCUSSION, SYNTHESIZER
- Josh JohnsonSAXOPHONE, ELECTRONICS, SYNTHESIZER
7 collectors on Gatefold own this · 4 pressings tracked on Gatefold
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